# FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360008705184`
- **School name**: FORDHAM LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
- **Location**: BRONX, NY 10458
- **Address**: 500 E FORDHAM RD
- **District**: NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #10 (LEAID `3600087`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.85970, -73.88840
- **Phone**: (718)733-5024
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5468068 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordham_Leadership_Academy_for_Business_and_Technology

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 369
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 42
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 8.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 93.8%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS ELP: 4
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 99.0% (cohort of 73)
- **2021**: N/A (cohort of 69)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 12.3% (51 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.6% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 6.5% (25 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 50.9% (196 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0
- **Restraint incidents**: 0
- **Seclusion incidents**: 0
- **Referrals to law enforcement**: 0
- **Bullying allegations**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 72.4%
- **Black/African American**: 1.0%
- **Asian**: 23.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 1.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 0.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 91.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.6% — 83 students
- **English Learners**: 19.2% — 74 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 48 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 20 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $29,975
- **Federal share**: $5,319
- **State + local share**: $24,657
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 385
### District F-33 (2020)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $1,000
- **Federal share**: 100.0%
- **State share**: 100.0%
- **Local share**: 100.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $1,000

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,088
- **Poverty rate**: 41.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 15.7%
- **Unemployment**: 12.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,659
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.5%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 6.5 miles (QUANTA RESOURCES)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 49
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.73 miles (748 752 EAST 182ND STREET)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: KINGSTON CENTER AN0
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 11
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2023-10-29

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.43167 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 0.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **FORDHAM HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS** — 0.0 mi away, 1.43% (this school: 1.56%)
- **JONAS BRONCK ACADEMY** — 0.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.56%)
- **PS 188** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.56%)
- **KIPP BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL II** — 0.7 mi away, 0.93% (this school: 1.56%)
- **PS 168** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.56%)

### graduation rate
- **CENTRAL PARK EAST HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **SPECIAL MUSIC SCHOOL** — 7.7 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **VILLAGE SCHOOL** — 8.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.3 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **NYC MUSEUM SCHOOL** — 10.1 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/fordham-leadership-academy-bronx/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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